EAST NORRITON — Police are scouring the area for suspects responsible for a kidnapping and jewelry store robbery that occurred Thursday night.

According to police reports, around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, officers responded to Shuler’s Jewelers on West Germantown Pike with reports of a robbery in progress.

Once on the scene, police learned a male victim had been kidnapped from his home in Tredyffrin, Chester County. At his home, police said he was accosted by three or four black male suspects armed with handguns. The men reportedly forced their way into the home, bound the victim and his wife and ransacked the place.

The suspects then reportedly kidnapped the victim and left the home in the victim’s white Volkswagon Passatt to Shuler’s Jewelers in East Norriton, where an undetermined amount of jewelry was stolen from the store.

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The suspects then fled the area in the victim’s Volkswagon and another reported getaway vehicle. Neither the victim nor his wife sustained serious physical injuries in the incident.

Tredyffrin Township Police Det. Sgt. Todd Bereda said investigators are looking into leads as to the possibility of the involvement of an organized group, such as a modus operandi (M.O.).

Anyone having any information relative to this case is asked to immediately call Tredyffrin Township Police Department at 610-647-1440 or Detective Esmonde of the East Norriton Township Police Department at 610-272-0748.

The Times Herald will updated this story with more details as they are made available.